Thursday, 25 October 2012

Scratch built cork tile hills

I've managed to put together and paint some low hills made from cork tile. This is a common technique that seemed easy enough so I gave it a go in an effort to break up my terrain collection, which was until today without any hills... Odd I know.

These were pretty easy. I broke up the edges of the pieces of cork with a pair of small pliers and used PVA to glue them together. I glued some extra small crumbled off bits around the joins, then spread some texture medium on the flat surfaces.

When dry, I used black gesso to undercoat them. The next day (today) I drybrushed them with 3 shades of brown craft paint, then a light dusting of Vallejo pale sand last of all. Bringing out the detail took careful drybrushing in multiple passes, over a couple of Walking Dead episodes. I finished them off with some of my Silfor tufts.

For the small effort they took, I'm very happy with the result. I also made some trash/debris piles for scatter terrain in my city ruins. They took a little more work, but I'm very happy with how they look and will hopefully be posting photos of them soon.

We stole a SSS, shaved it, put it in a suit and it was the Governor of California for a while.

Love the hills. I use cork only for rubble, but with these simple hils, and all the buildings that Matakashi has done over the years. I am beginning to believe in its use for sturdy terrain. They look great.

Those look really good. In the blog you said you used "black gesso" to under coat them. Can you talk a little bit or a lot about what this is and why you use it? I am not familiar with it at all. Thanks Dan